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“The 15th human foot in a decade washed up in Washington State. Don’t be alarmed.” - Amazon Ring Teaming Up With Police in War on “Dirtbag Criminals”
As far as I know nothing terrible has happened with Ring yet – but the blurring of the lines between corporate overlords and police overlords is disquieting. - Dolphins Seem to Use Toxic Pufferfish to Get High | Smart News | Smithsonian
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For example, prisoners on a hunger strike had their toilets shut off for a week, or a prisoner being put into solitary confinement for asking when heat would come back on. In addition to the inhumanity, there’s a real free speech issue here. - Androgynous aerial acrobat & 1920s female impersonator, the great ‘Barbette’
Lots of cool photos, too. - 2019 Minimum Wage Act Would Help Black Workers More Than White
Here’s something I hadn’t realized: “The black working class is more likely to work in jobs that pay less than the proposed $15 minimum, but geography has even bigger impact on workers’ pay—black workers are far less likely to work in states with their own minimum wage laws.” - How To Speak About The Israel Lobby In A Non-Anti-Semitic Way – The Forward
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“These results suggest that advocacy efforts focused on pushing police departments to adopt more restrictive use of force policies can produce meaningful reductions in the number of police-involved killings… Officers in police departments with more restrictive policies in place are actually less likely to be killed in the line of duty [and] less likely to be assaulted…” - The Bat and Ball Problem Revisited – drossbucket
“…the paper is basically a series of increasingly desperate attempts to get people to actually think about the question.” (Via.) - I Was A Cable Guy. I Saw The Worst Of America. | HuffPost
Content warning for… I mean, for so much. Dead cat, sexual harassment, homophobia, Dick Cheney, and a generally bleak world. (Via.) - Performance and Selfhood in ‘Alita: Battle Angel’ – J. Rosenfield – Medium
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A beautiful short animated piece. - Financial Windfalls: 15 Stories of Gifts, Wins, Inheritances, and The Money That Changed Everything | Topic
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- “Hilde is a force of nature. One can only imagine what sort of stories she will be turning out once she has a driver’s license.”
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When a DA is determined enough, is the short answer. - Emma Thompson’s letter to Skydance: Why I can’t work for John Lasseter – Los Angeles Times
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The headline is irrelevant clickbait, because nothing in Jamelle Bouie’s excellent overview is making a case about what is “the greatest threat.” (Probably Bouie didn’t write the headline). But the electoral college is definitely anti-democracy, and the arguments in its defense make zero sense. (Alternate link.) - BNYT columnist Bret Stephens inadvertently explains why women don’t report sexual harassment – Vox
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https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/8/21/17687402/kylie-jenner-luck-human-life-moral-privilege
Study proves everyone wrong: Voter ID laws neither combat voter fraud nor deter voters (in total or by race, gender, age, or party affiliation).
Apparently, Will Smith isn’t black enough for his new movie role.
LoL, I’d be careful of drawing any hard and fast conclusions from the abstract alone.
RonF,
Especially since another study in another state found that voters were deterred. Time for more research to figure out the differences between these states/studies.
(Who doesn’t enjoy a good doomsday article, even if it is a couple of years old?)
Doooooomed! We’re all doomed because, as a group, we’ll never do what needs to be done. That might impact the profits of billionaires.
On the plus side, I feel like we’ll avoid that catastrophe when all the insects are gone and we suffer ecological collapse. There’s always a silver lining.
What Did Ilhan Omar Say? Here’s the Full Transcript of Her Response to a Question about Anti-Semitism – Institute for Policy Studies
Her phrasing of one sentence was inapt and echoed some anti-semitic tropes, and criticizing that is fair. But read in context, it’s VERY hard to take this as a purposeful attack on Jews, as so many have claimed it is.
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I agree. I found “How Should We Talk About the Israel Lobby’s Power?” in New York Magazine by Andrew Sullivan to be worthwhile. He asks:
He then goes on to show how it is, perhaps, not as easy as it looks, at least not if you are going to account for certain facts and certain kinds of official public discourse around the United States’ relationship with Israel. Towards the conclusion, he writes this:
I have been mulling Sullivan’s piece over for the last couple of days. I think he asks some really important questions.
This is also a useful piece from The Forward: How To Speak About The Israel Lobby In A Non-Anti-Semitic Way, by Batya Ungar-Sargon: